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Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934 – RKO)

Next showing: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM Eastern Turner Classic Movies Runtime:  67 Minutes One of the funniest and best of Wheeler & Woolsey’s musical comedy movies, full of scantily clad dancing girls, double-entendre jokes, and the sort of high paced action and physical humor that made the team wildly popular, especially among younger [...]

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Cockeyed Cavaliers (1935 – RKO)

Next showing: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:45 PM Eastern Turner Classic Movies Runtime:  72 Minutes With Dorothy Lee, Noah Berry Sr., Thelma Todd. Director: Mark Sandrich Many critics (including Leonard Maltin) and fans alike consider this to be W & W’s greatest movie. While it’s hard to pick favorites, this is certainly among the best. [...]

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Dixiana (1930 – RKO)

Wheeler and Woolsey’s third movie together was intended to equal the success of 1929′s Rio Rita. It starred longtime leading lady Bebe Daniels, who came to prominence in 1915 as Harold Lloyd’s love interest in his string of hit comedies. Dixiana was a lavish and expensive musical with a color sequence near the end of [...]

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Girl Crazy (1932 – RKO)

Wheeler & Woolsey’s most often remade film (three or four times) was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name. RKO paid composers George and Ira Gershwin to even write a new song exclusively for the film. Rumor has long been the the final product was compromised by then-studio head David Selznick’s constant [...]

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